"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost (poetry)

[pingguo2]

Did it skip a line? "There where it is we do not need the wall:"

[SpokenVerse]

@pingguo2 Interesting. It's not in the Bartleby version that I copied - but it is in some versions. Try googling the previous line "One on a side. It comes to little more"

[pingguo2]

@SpokenVerse Are you the reader of this video?

[SpokenVerse]

@pingguo2 Yes I read everything in this SpokenVerse channel.  I hope you'll listen to a few more.

[thisux7x7]

By todays standards of writing it's not really that great of a job, Most of the time: "We give to much greatness, undeserved, for whence I ponder, yet allured.

In moments taken lght and fair, I fight and figit in my chair.

No still to slumber cankle brained, alarmed but wearied clasped and chained

I'll eat an apple in distress, and thank the world for hopelessness.

Okay it;s not genious, but I just wrote it on the spot, the eyes have the interpretation, the writ is not even a labor

[Tubetopfan1]

While I thank the uploader for this poem, I respectfully disagree with the position that this poem had no deeper meaning or social undertones. The whole poem is allegorical and addresses human relationships so much more than merely providing a descripton of stones sitting upon a property line. Walls (boundaries) are necessary but can also prevent greater understanding between people. Allegorically, Frost seems to be sitting on the fence regarding the necessity of walls.

[SpokenVerse]

@Tubetopfan1 Or, perhaps. we see things the way we are rather than the way they are.

[John27346]

I like this poem as taken literally.

[weeyin1155]

Thank you for an excellent video upload and thanks to mary who kindly shared. ♥

[clazza01]

your voice is lush xx

[MCbroomer]

It is Frost's social explorations that really give some of his poems some real dimension and power in the face of his "simplicity" (which I love).

[MCbroomer]

Many of Frost's poems focus on the individual in society. I always likened "Mending Wall" to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the distancing and masking of ones true identity that must take place in order to relate to others. Both poems bring this idea from the unconscious to the conscious mind of the narrator. My favorite social aspect Frost plays with is suicide and the individual removing himself from society in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

[onnanoyononaka]

"It's unlikely that Frost intended any deeper meaning, but you can read a social message into it if you like. "

>>> in class, we approached this poem from a social point of view, and we did find a social message that is even relevant to our own society..

[SpokenVerse]

Thanks, that's interesting. What was the message?

[onnanoyononaka]

"The Importance of relative distance to maintain relationships in Modern Life"

this is relevant to us because individuality is more asserted nowadays by young people.. I'm not sure if this is exactly a message :- but writing a journal entry for this poem was more interesting and satisfying than, say, Prufrock :s

can I make a request please!! It would be great if you can read "Piano" for D.H. Lawrence :) thanks again

[SpokenVerse]

Yes, we maintain social barriers even when they're not needed. We keep people at a distance, like the saying "Familiarity breeds contempt".

Here's a saying of my own. "Relationships depend on the exchange of small tokens, most of them counterfeit".

Lawrence is difficult, but I'll record "Piano" and then decide if it's worth posting